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jj R Avnoi.ru & BuNCE,
THE law of the State of Geor
ijjf» oin requiring all officers civil and military
to take the oath therein prefcribtd, direft
\ed that the oath fliould be taken within
« fix months from the palling of the aft
p the aft paffid the 16th February last, and
the time allowed for taking the oath, ex-
I pired the iGtli Augult, and accordingly
P the Governor’s Proclamation required the
S Clerk:, of the Superior Courts to make a
return to him of all officers who by that
R time had taken the oath, as well as a return
of those *ho had neglected it. After the
16th of Align o, the Clerks were not au
thonied to administer the oath to any per
son, and those whose negligence had con
tinued to that time had incurred the penal
ties pf the aft, and no fubfequtjnt conduft
could re-instate them. I mention this, bc
fl cause i have been informed, that in con
sequence of advice from pretty high au
thority, a praftice his been lately adopted
of taking the oath at the present day be
fore the Jnftices of the Inferior Court, a
praftice which cannot answer any good
I purpose, and which the law does not war
rant. Those therefore who have negleft
ed taking the oath to the present time,
would do well to let their negligence con
tinue, it is now out of their power to com-
I ply with the aft, and it being believed
that the Executive however well pleaf'ed
with the aft a: fir ft, or instrumental in
procuring it, is now clearly convinced of its
being unconstitutional, it will not proba
bly be further afted upon till the meeting
of the Lcgiflature. Those who now take
the oath, Voluntarily place themselves in
this dilemma, they acknowledge the aft
obligatory, and themselves to have incur
red the penalties of it, and if so, they are
incapacitated to exercise the funftions of
, their offices, nor can their situations pos
sibly be (uttered by taking the oath in a
manner, and at a time not warranted by
law—however well disposed the Governor
hi.iv be, there is no provision in the law
for the exercise of Executive clemency.
ZENO.
Me firs. Randolph (A Bunce,
THE encouragement given to
the tinging school lately established in this
place, and the patronage likely to be af
forded the teacher, must give real fatisfac
fi .ii to the lovers of vocal music, and par
t tirularly so, to those who delight in sacred
harinoMV. From the attention fliewn to
this branch of polite education, and the
daily incrcafe of the school, we may flatter
ourfdves that what Doftor Watts called,
“ that unhappy manner of tinging of read
ing line by line,” will soon be done away
l in our church. If the fingers will gener- 1
ally furnifli themselves with hooks as they
ufua'ly do in other places, after the pfaltn
is ivm out they wiH be able to ting it,
without the inconvenience of reading and
tinging alternately ; the music will then be
more agreeable, the sense of thepfalm will
' be better preserved, and the t’ffeft produ
ced will be more pleating and important
than in the mode now praftiled. For my
| own part I have attended to both modes
of tinging in church and have experienced
their different effefts upon my mind ; and
• when I have heard a psalm well lung, with
all the different parts of the tune, and with
out hearing the music every moment in
terrupted by the insipidity of reading line
after line, my mind has been irresistibly
elevated above the things of a temporal na
’ ture, and I have felt involuntarily devo
tional. But I appeal to every person who
* Ins attended public worlhip in this place,
j. whether the tinging in our church ever
has produced, or ever can produce fueh
J an etfcft in the dull and lifelefs manner in
J which it as usually performed: it makes
indeed a little variety in the public worship
f —but ’tisa variety unpleasant and fatigue
iug—neither calculated to gratify the ear,
to elevate the mind, or to improve the heart.
How it fliould have entered the head of
0 nnv person who has any pretention to
I (kill in music, that to ting one part only of
a tune was better than to ting threeor four
| parts, is not to be explained by the ordi
§ narv rules of calculation, but may be ac
i counted for on principles which pollibly
~ will be hereafter attended to by
l SOLO.
MITTAU, June 6.
On the 3d instant, the coniort of Louis
( XVIII. arrived here after a long and dirti
ly Ci, h journey ; her buiband went to the
, tUrtance of four leagues to meet her, but
found her at half the way. Their meeting,
V a'er aie pa rati 0:1 of eight years, palled m
reverie and misfortunes, was extremely af
nt fr^ n ai
Far ttav before yesterday arrived also
the IVmccis of France. Maria There fa, front
V tnna. Louis XVIII. let out in the
p, m. : ;to receive her; the firft port house
, c ; n "->S to i e the place of meeting, but the
P'HKcfs having much hiftened herjour
<*U ncV * mtt by the way. The mo
ir.ent of her reception afforded a fccne cx
ltm Animated by the fame
Louts XV 111. the Dukv of
Angouleme, and the Princess, quickly left
their carriages, and the tears of joy gullied
from every eye. The Princess tnrew her
felf fobbing at the feet of Louis, who im
mediately railed and mod tenderly embra
ced her.
The Duke d’Angouleme was then pre
sented to the Princess as her future spouse,
and received bv his cousin with uncom
mon tenderness. .
The marriage of this beautiful and anna
b!e Princels will take place on the tenth
instant.
VERONA, June 11.
Proclamation of general Suivarronv, to the in
habitants of Lucerna and St. Martin , in
the wejl oj Piedmont,
“ People, what part have you taken r
Seduced peasants, you support the French,
the disturbers and enemies oi the public
tranquilitv, while tranquility, can alone se
cure your existence and happiness. Flie
French have declared themselves the ene
mies of Jesus Christ. Ihe ancient attach
ment of your fathers to the doftrine of
chriftmnity, has procured you the protec
tion of England. The French are now
the enemies of that power, your benefac
trefs, our ally at this very moment. Sup
ported by our viftories, as well os by the
aififtance which the God of chriftians
deigns to grant his warriors, we are arrived
at the foot of your mountains, and on the
point of entering them, if you continue to
persist in your blindness. Inhabitants of
the vallies of Lucerna and St. Martin, 1 the
time of repentance is not yet past, hasten
to join our banners; for they are bleft by
heaven, and viftorious on earth. The
fruits of the plan are at your depofal, if
you become our friends; and the mighty
protection of England fliall be continued to
you ; the more so, as your consciences
will never permit you to expose yourselves
to the galling reproach of having been the
satellites of your tyrants and seducers; in
uniting with us, you will become the de
fenders of true liberty and tranquility.
SuwARROW Riminizkoy.
KINGSTON, (Jam.) August 20.
One of the crew of the Hermione fri
gate, who was brought a few days ago from
Charleston in the Sprightly cutter, was
yesterday executed on board the Acafta fri
gate, pursuant to the sentence of a Court
Martial.
August 22.
By a gentleman arrived from Jeremie,
we learn, that Rigaud is still alive, but
that he has received a wound in one of his
arms, which will occasion it to be ampu
tated—Daily lkirmilhestake place between
the two contending parties, and only four
days ago seventeen wounded arrived at fe
remie, from Rigaud’s head-quarters at Mi
raguanne.
NEW-YORK, September 2.
Tranflatcd fm the Commercial Advertiser.
(Continued from our last.)
Second letter from Colonel Barbaczy to Prince
Charles.
Head-quarters, Gerfback,
May 1, 1799.
My Huflars brought me last evening, a
few hours after the departure of the ex
press, that carried the dispatches I had the
honor of addrefling to your royal highness,
two men whom the armed peasants had
met with about 10 o'clock in the morning
on the right bank of the Rhine, a small
distance from Kelli. Tiiefe peasants after
pursuing them a considerable time, over
took them a little beyond the Wuilfett.—
Knowing them to be Frenchmen, and fuf
pefting their appearance, they firft thought
of putting them to death ; but as they as
sured, they were neither spies nor fofdiers,
and that at the moment they were met,
they were making preparations to repafs
the Rhine in a peaceable manner, to return
home, it was thought best to fend them to
me. To all the questions I put, they an
swered in very evasive terms—l ordered
them to be examined. Each had a purse
of fifty pieces of French money ; and in
the pocket of one was found the following
billet :
“ Rafadt 9 Floreal (April 28)
8 o'clock in the evening,
u
“ We leave this place in one hour—you
will fee us between nine and ten —our car
riages will be lighted— John will be in the
firjiy and lin the fourth, with the papers. I
recommend the third and the fifth to vou ”
(Signed) ROSENSTIEL.”
After reading this billet I law that I had
two of the aftors in this detestable plot,
whose authors had been so well guefled, at
Raftadt. I hoped to learn from them the
particulars, but it was impolfible to make
them speak, and they have constantly kept
a fileuce, which menaces, even of death,
have not been able to make them break!
1 lend them to your royal highness, that
they may be interrogated by vourfelf in
person, and their fate decided.
I learn this moment by deserters, and
, French prifcncrs whe have just Iced brut’
in, that Jean Debty on arriving at Stras
bourg, has had the baseness to impute his
own crime to my Hufiars—to thole Hus
sars whose escort he had forced his unhap
py colleagues to refafe —who had ran, up
on hearing the cries of the vittims, in
hopes of luccouring them—who (hewed
so much attention to their widows and
their whole train—who finally had just
recondutted himfelf in fcfety to the banks
of the Rhine.! This new infamy had con
vinced me that the Machiavilian directory
had proposed to effect a two fold objett by
the afiafiinatiou of its ministers—and that
its view was, not only to get rid of their
persons and the writings which might
serve to condemn themfeives, but also give
birth to a fubjett for calculating the victo
rious troops of his majesty the Emperor
and king. Happily ttiis monltrous ca
lumny falls by its own absurdity; for what
motive can my Hufiars befuppofed toi*ave
had for committing this molt infamous att ?
It was not their hatred to Frenchmen ;
since of 15 who were in the carriages, they
left 13 alive, and difpatche ’ only two. It
is not the desire of plunder; for they
touched neither the gold nor the silver nor
jewels, but only took the papers. Will it
be said they atted by order of their chiefs,
and that these wanted the papers of the
legation ? why then did they take the pa
pers, only to throw them into the Murg ?
Was there ever any thing more inconfift-'
ent? Do we not here recognife those who
at Rome caused one of their own officers
called Duffaut to be assassinated in order to
attribute this murder to the ministers of the
Pope? In (hort, do we not identify the
very men, who caused their lick in the hos
pital of Veronas to be maflacred, with a
view of imputing that butchery to the Ve
netian Senate? Their machinations are
known—all Europe resounds with their
crimes, and Heaven is preparing to make
them recoil upon their own heads.
I am, &c.
BARRACZY, Colonel.
P. S. At the moment I was going to
fend off an express with this letter to your
royal highnefsa detachment of my Hufiars
brought in ten other Frenchmen whom
they found on the borders of the Black Fo
rest, and who after making some demon
strations of rest fiance, and firinga few muf
quet (hot, surrendered.
They have owned that within 8 days,
they were sent from Strasbourg, to the
number of 27, in order to strike this blow,
and that they were not informed before the
evening of the 28th April, of the moment
when it was to be put into execution.—
They add many other particulars, which
your royal highness will learn better from
themfeives.
I fend them to you under a strong guard
together with the two firft. My Hufiars
will take no rest, until they have found
the remainder of this band.
September 5.
New England Fortifications.
An excellent toast, given by a Lady.
“ The bed Fortifications of our country —
the Navy, the Meeting Houses, and the
Public Schools.” The Lady who gave
the above, is certainly well versed in the
ta&ics of a free government, and were her
name known, ought to be toasted by every
Patriotic American.
IN EUROPE
Affairs still wear an afpett still not less
pleafing—Maffena is driven from Zurich,
in Switzerland to the Canton of Berne,
by the Archduke Charles. The latter was
very cordially received at Zurich. The
Burgomaster, Ktfchefperger, an officer of
the Municipality, waited on the humane
and brave Prince Charles, and recommen
ded to him the protettion of the citv, in
the fulleft confidence of his humanity.
The German official accounts state
“ When the venerable old Kilchefperger
presented the city keys to the young hero,
whorefufed accepting them, faying, “The
keys of the city are in very good hands.”
This mode of condutt cannot fail to con
cilitate the affettions of the Swiss. The
strong position the French have occupied
near Zurich, since their retreat, seems to
indicate another bloody feene. Maftena
is flow and stubborn, but sure, in his
“ backward advances.”
WASHINGTON, Augufl 14.
Unfavorable accounts have been seve
ral days in circulation refpetting the dan
gerous situation of the Miami fcttlements.
It seems the surveyor, out running lines,
consonant to the treaty of Grenville, has
been forbidden to proceed by a considera
ble party of Indians—The settlers on Mad
River, have taken the alarm, and are for
tifying themfeives; particulars, we have
not been able to learn—a few we pre
sume, will give us to know how tar these
reports are founded on reality j though
there is little reason to doubt that the inha
bitants are under considerable agitation.
We have since heard, that the Indians
have appeared in a considerable body on
hoi lebac k— -that they declared themfeives
to have peaceable intentions towards the
peo£\e of the Ua'ued and avowed
theirdetermination of attacking the Chick
asaws, who had introduced on their hunt"
ing grounds. Their having sent away
their women, a circumstance unufua!
when they war only with one another ha*
been the occaiion of so much alarm amon»
the frontier settlers, and affords a good rea*
lon to doubt the truth of their profeffionj.
SAVANNAH, September 20.
On Wednesday evening arrived the ffiir>
Nancy, Captain Samuel Newell, f
Corunna, which he left on the 2ad of Ju.
ly—Capt. N. brought no papers, but has
politely handed us the following informa
tion : —That previous to his failing, let.
ters had been received from France which
gave an account of a most deftrudtive en
gagement between Gen M'Donald, and
the Ruffians and Austrians, which lasted
for three days successively, on the last of
which he received a reinforcement, when
he redoubled his exertions, putting all to
the sword, and taking 2000 prisoners ; this
aft ion was faught on the Bth July. That
the French had declared waragainft Swe
den, in consequence of their having agree
able to treaty, furnifhed the Austrians with
12,000 men—That the French and Spa
nish fleets (consisting of 57 fail of the line
had formed a junction, after having been
feperated in a gale of wind in the Medi
terranean, in which 11 fail were difmafted
' and others much damaged) are now a£tu
ally riding at anchor in Cadiz harbor, af
ter having eluded the pursuit of the com
bined fleets, and accomplished the landing
of 5000 troops at Genoa —That by recent
letters from Bourdaux, received at Corun
na, Buonaparte with his army of 150,000
men, were ranging the country trium
phantly—That the French have called in
all their privateers, and as fall as they ar
rive deprive them of their commissions,
and that the French agent at Corunna had,
previous to our informant’s failing, taken
the commissions from fix, and sent them
to France, by order of the Dire&ory.
Capt. N. also informs, that a brig from
Philadelphia. Captain Gerard, bound to
Corunna, was captured by a French pri
vateer and afterwards recaptured by a Bri
tifti fiigate and carried into Lisbon, where
he fterling salvage, and arrived
at Corunna, from whence he failed for a
market.
HERALD.
AUGUSTA,
WEDNESDAY, September 25, 1799.
EXPECTATION has for some time
past been constantly awake, and curiosity
liftning with eager attention for news in*
terefting and important from the Mediter
ranean, and anticipation uneasy at so long
a silence already imagined a decisive bat
tle to have been fought between the grand
fleets in those seas, and the number of ships
taken, began to be enumerated by the in
ventive talents of restless news mongers,
and to be aflented to by unfufpefting cre
dulity. But the result of the operations in
the Mediterranean Sea appears to be, that
the French and Spanilh fleets after forming
a junction, eluded the vigilance of the
Britifli commanders, pafled out of the
Streights and were fafely anchored off Ca
diz. The object of the combined fleets
remains unknown—something highly im
portant is probably in view.—The French
and Spanish fleets pafled out the Straits the
6th July—the English fleet it appears had
not pafled out the 20th. This delay of the
British, and the ultimate obje<ft of the
French, we leave for the exercise of con
jecture, till we are able fatisfacftorily to ac
count for the one, or explain the other.
Buonaparte’s situation remains un
known—while in one instance he is repre
sented as invariably fuccefsful, in another
he is stated perpetually fubjeft to disasters.
Sir Sidney Smith, has officially commu
nicated to the admiralty an account of the
citfeat of a French flotilla sent by Buona
parte to aid the siege of Acre in Syria—
The flotilla consisted of a corvette and nine
fail of gun veflels—in coming round
Mount Carmel, they were discovered, and
immediately given chace to by Sir Sidney,
seven fail out of the nine were captured,
and the battering cannon,ammunition, See.
with which they were loaded for the re
duction of Acre, were applied to its de
fence.
The Austrian account of the murder
of the French Ministers is well worthy of
attentive consideration— That black tranf
aftion appears yet not perfectly explained